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Jun 18, 2019 · A New Jersey man has become at least the ninth US tourist to die in the Dominican Republic in a string of deaths the FBI is investigating. Relatives of Joseph Allen, 55, say he was...
Jun 18, 2019 · The US embassy in Santo Domingo said it had not yet found anything to indicate the cases are linked. The deaths represent a tiny percentage of the Americans who holiday on the island every...
- 11 American Tourists Have Died in The Dominican Republic This Year
- How Safe Is The Dominican Republic?
- Will Tourism in The Dominican Republic Be Affected?
This year there have been multiple high-profile cases involving American tourists dying while staying in the Dominican Republic. Seven deaths have been attributed to tourists becoming ill and dying of health related issues. Khalid Adkins According to the GoFundMepage started by his sister-in-law, Marla Strick, Adkins traveled to the Dominican Repub...
State Departmentissued a level two (out of four) safety warning for the Dominican Republic in April 2019. The warning advises travelers exercise increased caution due to violent crime in the country, which include armed robbery, homicide and sexual assault. The State Department says that resort areas tend to be better policed and safer that urban a...
As the stories continue to emerge, some travelers have taken to social media to voice concerns about traveling to the Caribbean country. While officials at the Dominican Ministry of Tourism told TIME they were not able to elaborate on the situation because of the ongoing investigation, Francisco Javier García, the Minister of Tourism for Dominican ...
Jun 13, 2019 · Six apparently healthy, middle-aged tourists from the United States have abruptly dropped dead in hotel rooms on their dream vacations in the D.R. since June 2018. Others have fallen seriously...
Jun 21, 2019 · Updated 2:58 PM PDT, June 21, 2019. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The deaths of eight American tourists in the Dominican Republic this year are not part of a mysterious wave of fatalities but a medically and statistically normal phenomenon that has been lumped together by the U.S. media, the island’s tourism minister said Friday.
Jun 12, 2019 · At least six Americans have mysteriously died at resorts across the Dominican Republic since June 2018, and several others have reported falling violently ill while vacationing there. Local authorities have not yet established a connection between the incidents, according to the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo.
Jun 24, 2019 · SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The tourism minister grimaced as he read aloud the causes of death in autopsy reports of the growing number of Americans who have died recently while...
